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Integrating Consumer-Facing Devices Into Clinical Care

 
• By Brian Bossetta

Medical experts at the American College of Cardiology Expo in New Orleans discussed the latest trends in wearable health technology and what it all means for patients receiving clinical care.

ACC Convention NOLA
• Source: BRIAN BOSSETTA

Medtech innovators have flooded the market with wearable devices that have forever changed the healthcare landscape, according to a top cardiologist who discussed the technology at the American College of Cardiology Expo (ACC.23) in New Orleans earlier this month.

Mostafa Al-Alusi, a cardiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, said wearable cardiac devices from tech manufacturers that monitor the...

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